Stems stout, stiffly erect, strigulose, up to 60 cm. tall from a perennial woody base. Lower leaves often simple, upper up to 11-foliolate; stipules triangular, strigulose, up to 3 mm. long; rhachis strigulose, up to 9 cm. long, including a petiole of 4 mm., prolonged up to 5 mm. beyond lateral leaflets; leaflets opposite or alternate, narrowly oblong, up to 6 cm. long and 1.5 cm. wide but often much smaller, typically scabrid above with short stiff hairs ± 0.2 mm. long. Racemes densely strigulose, many-flowered, up to 15 cm. long in fruit, including a peduncle of up to 2 cm.; bracts lanceolate, 2 mm. long, very caducous; pedicels 1–2 mm. long, strongly reflexed during and after flowering. Calyx divided to near the base; lobes acuminate-subulate, 4–5 mm. long. Stamens 6–7 mm. long. Fruit cylindrical, apparently indehiscent, spirally curved into 0.7–1.5 turns, ± 40 mm. long and 3 mm. wide, minutely strigulose, often somewhat warty; mesocarp woody, ± 0.5 mm. thick; endocarp not spotted.
